Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today with Spectators Political Editor Tim Shipman and the journalist Sonia Soda.

Now Tim, first of all, there was a big article out in the Sunday Times last week talking about reformed success among a territory and a sort of group which

maybe hasn't always yielded results for Nigel Farage's various parties, which is a mum's net

survey saying how well they're doing with older women. Yeah, I mean, traditionally and,

you know, consistently, Farage has been a man's politician and there's pretty much always been a massive bias with every party that

he's led towards men and particularly older men that kind of beer-swilling pub-going fraternity

that likes, thinks of him as a bit of a cheeky chappie who's challenging the establishment

and that's always played quite well. I think there's always been a fairly inbuilt

scepticism from the female voter. There's been a, you know, I mean a big deficit, sort of 10, 15

points quite a lot of the time in his support. And this, you know, Mumsnet isn't everything. It's not

the sort of, you know, they are not the whole electorate, but they're a pretty key sort of

influential group and it's a bit of a right of passage

for politicians to trot off to Mumsnet and, you know, get a grilling and doing well with a bunch of

people who are quite politically engaged and have a disproportionate tendency to vote.

It's good news for Farage.

You know, I think there still is a male kind of bias in the

reform vote in general. Young women are flocking to the Greens, but the fact that older women

are now interested in reform, I think is significant. If you went back to polling sort of six

months ago, I think it showed that the only groups the Conservatives were still ahead

with were sort of older people over 75 and more likely women than men in that category.

I think it was older women were the only people voting Tory. And if that group is now pivoting

towards reform, that could have serious implications as the year goes on. And I got a bit excited

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